Launch Complex 34

Image Credit:
Doug Ellison

Published:
July 9, 2018

Historical Date:
September 16, 2016

A full moon rising over Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on September 16th 2016. Launch Complex 34 was first used for Saturn 1 rockets in 1961. It was later modified to support Saturn 1B launches beginning in 1966. It was here on Friday, 27th of January 1967 that the crew of Apollo 1 died in an accident during a countdown rehearsal. Only the launch platform remains standing today, at the base of which is a plaque which reads: